S/D: Joe Morris

I really like A Cloud of Black Birds - a well-recorded record of great quartet stuff featuring Mat Maneri. Also his solo acoustic record on Aum Fidelity is just fantastic.

man, JM is the shit! "you be me" is excellent quartet improv, "antenna" is a trio recording in my ears not quite so hot, "no vertigo" excellent solo recording with banjouke and other instruments, "singularity" similarly brilliant acoustic guitar only cd - lots of moments where he stretches out into an african kora trancey groove. that cd with susie ibarra , mark dresser and eugene chadbourne is wonderfully fidgety colourful etc "pain pen" that's it. his duo cd w/ mat maneri "soul search" (god he does pick some CHEESY names for a lot of his pieces) is one of the best 2 muso dialogues i ever heard. "age of everything" on riti is a fantastic trio recoding you need it.
I'm sure somebody menrtioned once upon a time that there was some kind of joe morris equivalent of derek bailey's "mirakle" w / dirty dumb funkines going on - is this true? anybody clue me up on that? it's be a dream come true!

Morris's "funk" album is called Sweat Shop. It sounds like Andy Gill gone jazz to my ears, and it's one of my favorite of his albums. Morris is a terrific guy, amazing player - I recommend A Cloud Of Black Birds, Soul Search, Deep Telling (w/Ken Vandermark, Ken Kessler, Hamid Drake), Live At The Old Office (w/the same band from ACOBB) and Eloping With The Sun is really cool, too. Recently he's been recording as an upright bassist quite frequently, but his bass playing isn't nearly as unique or interesting as his guitar stuff, so don't pick any of those discs up expecting to be blown away by him, though some of the other folks on there are really good. There's one with Rob Brown, under the name Stone House, that's well worth hearing.

if you like morris and wish he would do some more caveman luddite noise rock guitar then get your hands on every recording by harry pussy and bill orcutt's solo cd on audible hiss. you should enjoy them

here i make desperate plea for burn of "sweatshop". can be foiund nowhere. oh the sadness. it is worse than when my dancing bear was kidnapped by the circus